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Just to add, some can identify Bluetooth signals, and I wouldn’t be surprised if identification via direct TPMS (tire pressure) is added eventually.


I have never seen TPMS ID trackers as they change relatively frequently and there are passive ones too; not to say they do not exists. Built-in BT ID of a vehicle or mobile phone rarely does.

Bluetooth and toll transponders (e.g, EZ-Pass, FastTrak) have been tracking things for decades.

First hand experience in operational rooms where both Bluetooth and the transponders are used for "traffic management" in Delaware and Washington DC. The readers are not at toll gates (only). they are sprinkled throughout highways and "high interest" areas. And, yes individual vehicles can be identified throughout their movements that is the very purpose of tracking so they can see the speed and flow of individual vehicles "to adjust intersection lights".


> they change relatively frequently

Aren't they static for the life of the sensor which is ~10 years?


Yes, you are likely right.

I do not know that much about TPMS changing, only anecdotal. Every time a rim is messed up or the device fails the TPMS would change.

They might have been wrong when they told me why they "just" track car BT (and EZPass).


What do you mean direct TPMS ID? Read all 4 tires as a fingerprint? Can you do that remotely at speed?


I think the main difficulty is how infrequently the devices broadcast.

You don't need to look at all tires to make a match, but the more a car has, the more likely one will be broadcasting during the window for detection.


Tire kicking suddenly a sign of privacy mindedness, not rude Craigslist window shopping behavior


https://networks.imdea.org/your-cars-tire-sensors-could-be-u...

Sort of. The problem isn’t necessarily the speed but the range. But it could be used. Bluetooth and WiFi tracking would be more likely in most real world scenarios.


You could just mount them to a bunch of fleet vehicles [0]. Hopefully they don't pick up any stray signals from nearby vehicles moving at low speeds (relatively) around them or have any AI, API, or Cloud integrations to combine that data with other mobile and stationary telematics.

[0] https://www.revvo.ai/product/revvo-connect/


I believe people have demonstrated this works at up to 100m with directional antennas.


Honestly, I was shocked by how many of them were successfully decided by rtl_433 running on a cheap RTL-SDR inside my house. I don’t live on a busy street. It picked mine up first but snagged a bunch more through the evening


> Can you do that remotely at speed?

Even if you can’t, if you put enough of them by stop signs and traffic lights it’s a non-issue.


The only way to fight against this dragnet is flooding these devices with fake data.


Yes. I'll bet fifty of what you like there's a demo on YouTube.


I've had similar issues, but found the situation in some niche topics improved after I used Add Feedback -> AI-generated a bunch.


May Chris Cornell rest in peace. He should have seen this.


any details? considering this.


basically what the other commenter said. switching back and fourth between vms would result in the usb hardware IDs changing every time. so i’d have to ssh in and update manually.

i’m sure there would be a way to fix this but I specifically bought it because of the level1 reviews stating that it’d work at hardware level.

maybe I got a bad one, or an earlier revision. but it soured me enough to not really weigh the overly enthusiastic/optimistic reviews.

Last I heard the intel arc gpus would support sriov (as in, there is hardware support but supposedly driver would land eventually). I haven’t followed up on that since I haven’t watched their videos in a while, but I would not be shocked if this ended up being false.


I would guess that there is an issue when the USB peripherals connect and disconnect as you switch inputs. I don't put USB drives in my KVM because it'll interrupt a transfer if switched.


I remember using 98SE on a 256MB PII laptop for a good while. ME was less stable and 2000 was a bit difficult for some games or at least h


The accepted term is "source available".

Restrictions on usage type are not commonly accepted as open source by any community that I'm aware of.


That is according to OSI. OSI does not get to dictate the english language.



Good thing there’s headscale.


Millions of Windows power users are accustomed to bypassing SmartScreen.

A macOS app distributed without a trusted signature will reach a far smaller audience, even of the proportionately smaller macOS user base, and that's largely due to deliberate design decisions by Apple in recent releases.


Only the root of the root filesystem is /

The point is that any filesystem can be chosen as the OS’s root.

The root of all other filesystems - there could be multiple per drive - is where you tell the filesystem to be mounted, or in your automounter’s special directory, usually /run/media, where it makes a unique serial or device path.

* clarity


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